monthly challenge

July challenge prompt: “beat the clock”

Each month, we vote on one shared prompt to create something using cables.

This month's prompt is “beat the clock”

Join our next meetup to see what everyone came up with. Or jump straight in - there is still time to create your own patch for the July Challenge!

How to participate:

Make a patch with the monthly challenge prompt as a conceptual/aesthetic guideline
Make your monthly challenge post public for others to view
Post it in the discord Monthly Challenge channel, and if you want, join our meetup on August 5th to show your work
Export to reel, use the 'add collaborators' feature on Instagram and add cables.gl when you make your post

Kudos to b00m for starting this initiative!

cables.gl intro workshop

Free in-person workshop in Cologne

We’re hosting free in-person workshops here in Cologne for anyone interested in getting started with cables.gl.

Just bring your laptop and a mouse, and you’ll have your first patch ready by the end of the session!

In 2 - 3 hours, we'll cover:

What cables.gl is
How it works
How to get started with your first patches

If you’d like to join us, please use the following link to choose one of the available sessions:

cables.gl monthly challenge – june 2026

cables sticker design

June challenge prompt: “cables sticker design”

Each month, we vote on one shared prompt to create something using cables.

This month's prompt is "cables sticker design" 🙂

Special treat: If manageable, we will print the best designs and send them to the participants.

Join our next meetup to see what everyone came up with. Or jump straight in - there is still time to create your own patch for the June Challenge!

How to participate:

Make a patch with the monthly challenge prompt as a conceptual/aesthetic guideline
Make your monthly challenge post public for others to view
Post it in the discord Monthly Challenge channel, and if you want, join our meetup on July 1st to show your work
Export to reel, use the 'add collaborators' feature on Instagram and add cables.gl when you make your post

Kudos to b00m for starting this initiative!

Animation/Timeline Update

We’ve completely rebuilt the Timeline — bringing true keyframing to your patches so you can animate any parameter with precision, from subtle color fades to complex camera moves.
Designed for both developers and motion designers, this is your space to shape motion — set keyframes, curve your easing, and see every change happen in real time.

Rewritten from the ground up with a cleaner interface, better performance and smoother workflow, the Timeline gives you the precision of a professional animation tool, right inside your browser.

Let’s dive right in!

June 2025 Release

After about six months since the last release we are excited to share a huge update on what has been happening on cables.gl. We have been hard at work delivering new features, powerful ops, and countless improvements to make your patching experience even better.

As always you can jump right into all the changes by reading the raw data in the changelog, or you keep reading, and we walk you through some of the more interesting changes. We will also give an outlook into the future...

Cables Standalone Recap

Almost a year ago we decided to start planning and prototyping cables standalone. It's about time we show where we are with it now!

August 2024 Update

A new update to cables.gl, with new features, quality of life improvements and some bug fixes.

Read up on all the changes in the changelog, or continue reading to see how we improved working with HTML and CSS, how you can now manage and rename ops directly in the editor, and how you keep track of everything that might go wrong while patching.

Sounds interesting? Let's start...

May 2024 Release

spring cleaning, again

...spring took a bit longer to turn into summer (at least in Germany), so we extended our spring-cleaning session as well.

But, as always, the new release also comes with new features, improvements and changes. Read up on everything at a glance in the changelog, or continue reading for some hand-picked highlights in the following blog post.

Feel free to leave feedback, reports and further ideas on our issue tracker or on discord. Here we go...

April 2024 Release

so fresh and so clean

They say "Cleaning is a practice, not a project" - well, call it whatever you want. But after the last release gave you all the power to "code" your own without even touching code, this one will make things faster, cleaner and easier.

As always you will find a comprehensive list of the errands we ran in the changelog, and some cherry-picked items in the post below...

February 2024 Release

Patching Your Own Ops

The first release of the new year goes out with a bang!

If you want a real quick look at all the changes: head over to the changelog directly. But don't, you will be missing out on a lot of the fun.

Have you ever felt the need to share SubPatches? Now you can! Have you never been keen on learning to code but still wanted to create Ops? Now's your chance!

Are you sitting in a dimly lit area and need the editor to be just a bit brighter? Tweak it now! Is your display too small to handle both editing AND rendering? Pop it out, now!

Read up on all the new additions that come with this release below. Have fun!